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VOLUME 85
The Butler Herald
"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT \ S TJI E S_E^(Mt ET OF SUCCESS"
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1901.
NUMBER 51.
School Aid Bill
Sent to President
Mr. Grady James
Died at His Home
For His Signatu General Library
University of Ga
Night
Bill Provides $900 Million for
Far-Reaching School Project
Program.
WASHINGTON—The House sent
to President Kennedy Monday the
remains of his ambitious school aid
program, thoroughly shredded in
months of congressional pulling
and hauling.
The 342-18 vote was anticlimatic.
It merely confirmed House pasage
of the two-part $900-million bill
two weeks ago. The Senate mean
while had approved the same bill.
All that was left of the Presi
dent’s far-reaching school program
in the bill was two-year extension
of the impacted areas program and
the National Defense Education Act.
The first helps school districts
W'ith a high percentage of children
of federal employes. The NDEA is
designed to strengthen the teaching
of mathematics, science and lang
uages.
Some key backers of the adminis
tration program have conceded that
the possibility of a wider school aid
program is dead for at least two
years, and possibly until after the
next presidential election.
Both programs had wide support
among conservatives. They had
been wrapped into the Kennedy
school program in an effort to win
votes for the more controversial sec
tions, such as S2.5 billion in federal
grants for public school construct
ion and teacher’s salaries.
The fact that the extensions are
for two years rather than one
means they are lost to the admin
istration as levers for use in seek
ing a wider school program next
year.
Mr. Woodfin Grady James, 78,
died at his home in Butler at 11:15
o’clock Sunday night. His death
was attributed to a heart condition
from which he had suffered for
approximately 3 years.
Mr. James was born in Macon
County April 30, 1883, son of the
late Mr. William P. James and the
late Mrs. Sara Belle Barfield James.
He spent most of his lift in Taylor
County.
He was engaged in farming inte
rest until he was forced to retire
on account of ill health.
Funeral services for Mr. James
were held at Bethel Primitive Bap
tist Church Tuesday afternoon at 4
o’clock. Rev. Ted Griner of Cochran
and Rev. E. H. Dunn of Butler offi
ciated. Burial was in the Bethel
Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Annie J. Barfield James, one dau
ghter, Mrs. Mildred Standridge of
Butler. One brother, Mr. Ernest
James of Ideal and two grandchild
ren. |
Edwards Funeral Home of Butler |
was in charge of funeral arrange- l
ments.
f »
Mr. J. C. Newsom
Prominent Reynolds
Citizen Dies Stpt.12
MRS. JAMES MONROE POSEY
Mrs. James M. Posey, | Mr. Roy F. Jones
Former Local Citizen Elected President
100 Years of Age , Kiwanis Club
Mr. Joshua Clinton Newsom, 83,
years of age, died at his home in
Reynolds at 6:30 o’clock P. M. Tues
day, Sept. 12. He had been in de
clining health for several months.
Mr. Newsom was born in Taylor
County, April 12, 1878 the son of
the late Napolean B. Newsom and
the late Mrs. Sara Long Newsom.
He was a life long citizen of Rey
nolds and a member of the Rey
nolds Baptist Church of which he
served on the board of Deacons for
a number of years. During his act
ive years Mr. Newsom was a farm
er, a warehouseman and also served
several terms as Mayor of the city
of Reynolds.
Funeral services for Mr. Newsom
were held at the Reynolds Baptist
Church, Thursday afternoon, Sept.
14 at 3:30 o’clock. Rev. J. R. Whid-
don, pastor of the church, officiated
and was assisted by Elder John
State-Wide Kiwanis
Convention Date Is
Oct. 8-10, in Atlanta
More Than 3,000 Members and
Their Wives Are Expected to
Register for Opening Day.
Kiwanis Club members through
out Georgia will hold their 42nd
statewide convention in Atlanta
October 8, 9, and 10 at the Dinkier
Plaza Hotel.
Elliott R. Jackson, of Atlanta,
convention chairman, said that
some 3,000 Kiwanians and their
wives are expected to attend the
annual meeting which will open
with registration at 10:00 a. m. Sun
day and close Tuesday afternoon.
A program of outstanding speak
ers, meetings, and other events, in
cluding special entertainment for
the ladies, was announced today by
Mr. Jackson and Marcus Bartlett,
Mangham, a life long friend of the Atlanta, program chairman for the
deceased. Interment was in Hill three-day affair.
Crest Cemetery, Reynolds. Speakers will include Dr. J. D.
Pallbearers were: Messrs Guy Grey> paslor of lhe First Baptist
37 Persons Die
When Plane Crashes
Near Chicago Sunday
CHICAGO—A Northeast Airlines
prop-jet Electra, barely airborne
from O’Hare International Airport,
clipped power lines Sunday, cart
wheeled over a railroad embank
ment and exploded. All 37 persons
aboard were killed.
Several witnesses said they heard
passengers screaming just before
the four-engine Electra exploded,
showering fuselage and wing frag
ments and bodies over a half-mile
crash path in a field near suburban
Bensenville.
The crash was the second major
airline disaster in the Chicago area
this month. A Trans World Airlines
Constellation crashed Sept. 1 short
ly after takeoff from Midway Air
port, killing all 78 persons aboard.
Mrs. James Monroe Posey who re- | The Reynolds Kiwanis Club
sides with her daughter, Mrs. Hin- elected officers Friday to take of-
ton Harris, and Mr. Harris in Men- fice on January 1st. These officers
tezuma, was recently honored on include:
the occasion of her one hundredth I President: Roy F. Jones .
birthday. ! V-Pres.: William Parker.
Approximately seventy guests Treasurer: C. E. Marshall.
were present for a barbecue dinner Directors: Ed Goddard, Leonard
r-. Ta^ircnn « r pvt Fmnk T served at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Whatley, H. C. Bond, C. G. Elder,
’ of Mr and Mrs’! Harris August 30. A beautiful three John Walton, C. F. Carson, Bob
Pvt. Bloodworth
Assigned to Military
Duty at Ft. Jackson
Windham, Jr., C. D. Windham, Da
Ivid Montfort Jr., Charlie Montfort,
C. E. Marshall and Newsom Kirk-
('sey.
Mr. Newsom is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Martha Powell New
som; three daughters, Mrs. Snow
den Steele of Nashville, Tenn.;
Mrs. James Ricks and Mrs. Frank
Church of New Orleans and past
president of the Southern Baptist
Convention; the Rev|. Ralph Porter
field, pastor of Sardis Methodist
Church, Atlanta; Kiwanis Interna
tional trustee Clum Bucher, Bloom
ington, Ind.; Dr. Frank Barnett, di
rector of research for the Richard
son Foundation, New York, City; A1
OmToodVrm oT Rt.“2, Reynolds
has been assigned to Co. D, 10th.
Btn., 5th Trng. Rgt. of the U. S.
Army Training Center, Inf., Fort
Jackson, S. C. where he is under
pink and white was cut and served Dr. C. E. Whatley are the retiring
along with the buffet dinner. president and vice president of the
Mrs. Posey, the former Josephine , Club.
Brooks was born and reared at Rey- The Reynolds Kiwanis Club con-
eoine eleht weeks of Basic Train- ! nolds ’ Ga - She is the widow of the tinues to be one of the most act-
& & & I late Rev. James Monroe Posey. The ive civic clubs in the state pre-
DnrintT hi* * P venth week 0 f i C0U P le reared three sons, now de- Renting outstanding weekly pro-
During his seventh week 01 1 ce ased, and three daughters. The grams and participating in civic
ing.
training young Bloodworth will
j op i daughters are Mrs. Harris, Mrs. C. projects to better the community.
simile to those in the forward 1B - Wade, Barnesville; and Mrs. E.jThe Club takes particular pride in
similar to those * n *** *°™ ard J. Amerson, Lilly. the Reynolds Golf Club which was
areas o a - ' , ( Mrs. Posey has 19 grandchildren, organized and is operated by the
ta V c e tical Ug vehSs an an°d n 18 great |Reynolds Kiwanis Club. z
l" re n a U S 0U n S atu°re bi He^SSTthl I " " as McElmurrav Appointed
practica! applications of the skill an<J thfi - y * ungest family mem :
an know g . ber attending was a great grand
child, Renee Posey, age two months
of Brookdale, Fla.
^ams of Reynolds; six grandchild- Tully, Mobile, Alabama, past presi
ren and one great granchild. Also, (tent of Kiwanis International, and
one sister, Mrs. Blanche Hicks of ^) r Albert Burke, Cheshire, Conn.,
Maco I 1 ; 'nationally known television lectur-
Goddard Funeral Home of Rey- er
nolds was in charge of funeral ar
rangements.
Reynolds Girl Scouts
Launch Campaign
September 25 to 30
Thomas Leon Theus
Senior at Medical
College of Georgia
Augusta - Thomas Leon Theus of
Butler has enrolled as a senior stu
dent at the Medical College of Geor
gia. He is a graduate of Butler High
School and attended the University
of Georgia where he received his
B. H. degree in 1958.
During his previous three years of
formal medical education, Theus
has done consilerable work in the
basic medical sciences. His courses
under the college’s noted faculty
have included anatomy, biochemist
ry, physicology, pharmacology and
pathology.
This year, his time will be devot
ed largely to work in the clinics of
hospitals affiliated with the Med
ical College. He will rotate through
the various clinical departments
such as obstetrics, pediatrics, med
icine, surgery, and psychiatry. In
addition, his supervised work will
inculed domiciliary medicine, dur
ing which he will treat patients in
their homes.
Following successful completion
of this final year, Theus will gra
duate from the Medical College on
June 2nd of next year. He then will
be required to intern for a year and
may then establish practice as a
physician.
Even as enrollment for the cur
rent year is concluded, the Medical
College is preparing to accept ap
plications for admission to next
year’s freshman class. All applica
tions are reviewed thoroughly, with
all candidates for admission invited
to visit the school for testing and
interviews. This is done to satisfy
admissions officials that the most
satisfactory students will be ad
mitted.
Upson Marine
Promoted to Pfc.
Following Basic
Rehoboth W.M.U.
; Will Meet In Warner
Wildlife Ranger For
Taylor & Peach Co.
PARRIS ISLAND, S. C.—A Tho- Robins Sept. 26
maston leatherneck was meritorious
ly promoted to private first class
Swilling McElmurray has been
appointed the Wildlife Ranger for
this area. He was selected on the
basis of a state merit examination
j and began work on September 1 in
| Taylor and Peach counties. He will
! be working out of the new office re
cently opened in' Fort Valley.
Swilling, a graduate of Reynolds
. . ... The Annual Information Day of
upon recent completion of recruit G. Rhh( . w M IT will beheld:
training at the Marine Corps Re- ! Tuesday Sept 26 at the First High Sch ° o1 ’ attended Southern
™„ nSnot. Parris Island. S. C. TapSt Churl ^ Wall Robins T “ hnl “> I " s,i,u,e »' Electronics
at 10 a. m.
The program for the day will in
clude an officers clinic and Mis-
cruit Depot, Parris Island, S. C.
Grady T. Rogers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Julian T. Rogers of 111 E St.,
Thomaston, received the promotion
during final review ceremonies at | sion g tud , y institute.
Parris Island for outstanding ach- ^ lunch will be served and a
ievements during recruit training, nursery will be provided.
Before enlisting in April 1961, Ro-
gers attended R. E. Lee Institute [
in Thomaston. | r arm Bureau Open
He is a grandson of Mrs. Grady ! Hnniu* in Marnn
Rogers of Butler and the late Mr. |noil*e m lViaCOn
Rogers.
and has been employed at Warner
Robins Air Force Base. He is mar
ried to the former Miss Willorene
Barrow.
Selective Service Draft
Marks 21st Birthday
Bank Bandit Gets
$21,917 at Macon
America’s peacetime draft has
reached that age generally thought
of as a magic moment in manhood.
The sometimes grim "greeter” of
13 million American young men
MACON, Ga., Sept. 16—The 36,000
family members, county Farm Bu-
I reau officials and the public were j was 21 years old Saturday,
j invited Saturday to attend an open No special ceremonies marked
lhouse of the Georgia Farm Bureau, 'the anniversary of the act, nor were
. . . . - ! Marking a milestone in the dev- any candles burned for it either. (It
*v, M «F°. N- T A n° ne | elo P ment °f the statewide confede- Icurrently runs through 1963, and
the Westgiite Branch of 1 ration < the headquarters of the I undoubtedly will be renewed.)
& Southern^ Bank here Thursday i tate , s i argest farm organization With bigger October call-ups, the
and escaped with two pillow cases | brings into one building the related j1940-drafted 21 year olds — grey-
contaming $21,917.21). i service departments of the farm or
The robber, carrying three green i gan ization
pillow cases, walked into the bank j ’
at “three minutes before 2 o’clock j — ~~ ~
and poked a long barrel pistol a- j Macon r ll*m Gets
ESLZJSiJEr* MiUer ’ Toombs Hospital Job
He handed Miller the pillow cas- j
,es and said, “Fill 'em up." | ^AUA,^ Sept.^.-General 0U °° o f 7he~BerHn'‘crisis, “may “see
"greetings” going to 21-year-olds for
! ing npw - may see the draft of
j their own 21-year-olds.
I Col. Mike Y. Hendrix is head of
! Georgia Selective Service, which
,has drafted 265,000 Georgians since
passage of the first peacetime se-
1 lective Service Act in 1940. He says
bigger October call-ups, generated
Miller said he scurried from one ; Southern Construction Co. of Macon
teller’s cage to another stuffing two has been authorized to start con- t he^f irstTime" since” the’ Korea‘S con -
of the pillow cases full of bills and struction on the Dr. John M. Mea* ^ict
change. The bank official dropped dows Memorial Hospital Monday,: Jf ' thev’ll be following in the
the third pillow case and k.cked it I according to Jack Meadows, chair- footsteps of thei r fathers who pre-
;m a r.ofithe Toombs County Hospital pared for Hitler’s war at training
Authority. camps in Louisiana, Georgia and
The two-story and basement struc the carolinas
ture will cost $854,458. It is expect- Peacetime drafts in America, the
foco*° be comp ^ eted ’ n September fi rst j n Rg history, became effective
1962. Sept. 16, 1940, when Franklin D.
Abreu & Robeson, Inc., Brunswick RooseV elt signed U. S. Act. 4164 into
are the architects. j aw
The 50-bed hospital will be con- j The hin was co-sponsored by the
structed under the Hill-Burton plan. late Sen Edward R Burke 0 f Ne-
.??’ a ?. re _* ra(d 'T ,s * braska and Rep. James Wolcott
under a desk.
While Miller filled the pillow
cases, the gunman backed up to the
center of the bank and held his
pistol on Miller, two tellers and one
customer.
“He kept looking back over his
{shoulder to make sure nobody was
coming up behind him,” Miller said.
“Then he yelled at me: “Hurry!
Hurry! Hurry!”
The 31-year-cld assistant man
ager said he handed the money-
filled pillow cases to the bandit,
who backed slowly out the door.
Miller said he ran to the back
door of the bank and watched the native of Toombs County.
the Vidalia-Lyons Highway adja- , Wadsworth of New York (now de-
cenl to Vidalia city limits, where ceased). With heavy southern
the structure is to be erected, was backing and strong midwestem op-
a gift to the hospital authority from po sition, it was immediately signed
A1 H. Meadows of Dallas, Tex., a by Mr. Roosevelt, who declared a-
bandit drive out of the parking lot.
filler took down the tag number
in hopes of tracing the car owner.
long with equal rights and equal
In addition, Mr. Meadows gave priv iieges in the bill “ we have
$150,000 in cash to be used toward set f or jb equal duties and equal re-
the county’s part of the cost. sponsibilities.”
The Annual Girl Scout Drive for
the Reynolds area will begin the
week of Sept. 25 to 30. Plans are
being formulated for a house to
house canvas on the night of Sept.
29th.
When you contribute to your
Girl Scout Council Fund Drive, you
County Rural Areas
Dev. Com. Met Sept. 13
At Reynolds
The Taylor County Rural Areas
Development Committee met at 1:30
P. M. in the Board Room of the
Flint Electric Membership Corpora
tion in Reynolds, on September 13,
1961.
Acting Chairman, Vernon R. Red
dish, called the meeting to order,
welcomed the group, and explain
ed the purpose of the meeting. He
are helping Girl Scouts to carry
out their promise “to do my du^y I then presented the member o"f the
to God and my country, to help i Department of Commerce, Mr. V. R.
nthor nonnln nt oil f I moe ” All » . , . . . . . . . . ,, , _
Stuebing, of Atlanta. Mr. Stuebing
other people at all times.” All
year long the Girl Scouts say yes
to every community request for
help. Say "yes” to this request they
make of you and give generously
to Girl Scouting in our communi
ty.
—Campaign Chairman.
Macon Now
Has 122,876
Population
explained the program and the
steps necessary for Taylor County
to begin their new organization.
These steps were given: Organize,
Set up program, Report overall eco
nomic devolpment program to state
agency, Determine specific program
and Begin work.
After discussion, the steering
committee was elected. The mem
bers are: Murray Jarrell, Jimmy
Childree, Alfonso McCrary, H. C.
Bond, H. H. Payne, Carl Brown, Ran
Cooper, Jimmy Smith, Ralph Under-
Macon’s official population cen- wood, C. F. Barfield, Henry Van-
sus is now on record as 122,876, the j landingham, R. C. Brooks, and Ju-
U. S. Bureau of the Census has no-Ilian Whatley. The next meeting
tified Mayor Ed Wilson. |was scheduled for September 19, at
This represents a tally of 69,764 18 P. M. in the Butler City Hall,
persons in the old city limits, count
ed in the 1960 census, plus an addi
tional 53,112 persons in the new
arear annexed on June 1, 1961.
The Bureau of the Census re
checked its figures for the area
involved in the annexation to get
the exact official count.
Richard M. Scammon, director of
the Bureau of the Census, notified
Mayor Wilson yesterday of the new
official population count and pro-
Methodist Youth i
Plan Car Wash
For September 23
The Butler Methodist Youth Fel
lowship has planned a "Car Wash"
day for Saturday, Sept. 23.
The purpose of this fund-raising
vided an official certificate setting 1 project is to give the M.Y.F. the
forth the figures. j money needed to help support a
He reported a copy of the certifi- [Missionary. Everyone knows how
cate will also be sent to Georgia’s 1 much these missionaries need sup
secretary of state. Scammon had:port and the MYF wants to help
earlier agreed that the corrected [by washing cars,
larger population figure will be us- I Everyone desiring to have his or
ed for any queries received by the j her car washed by this group will
Bureau of the Census. [please call UN. 2-4115 or UN.
2-3361. Tell them what time you
would like to bring your car to be
washed or the time that you’ll
like to have your car picked up.
The rates for this service will be:
Complete outside wash, $1.00; com
plete outside washed and inside
cleaned, $1.25.
Take a look at your car. Don't
you think it needs washing by the
local MYF group.
Fifteen Chiropractors
Honored by State Assn.
For Long Service
Fifteen chiropractors with 35 or
more years of service are being
honored by the Georgia Chiropractic
Association this month.
They are:
Dr. Maud Brown, Newnan; Dr. E.
H. Anderson, Savannah; Dr. F. W.
Austin, Gainesville; Dr. Michael !
Gershon, Atlanta; Dr. J. H. Hiller,
Elberton; Dr. J. W. Miller, Gaines
ville; Dr. Linwood Morris, Augusta;
Dr. R. B. Mowrey, Atlanta; Dr. R. O.
Shaw, Tifton; Dr. H. Roy Smith, At
lanta; Dr. Thomas F. Smith, Ross-
ville; Dr. J. B. Ttingle, Columbus;
Dr. J. R. Wainwright, Augusta; Dr.
L. J. C. Williamson, Carrollton, and
Dr. L. Dean, Moultrie.
Bethel Primitive
Baptist Church
Cemetery Notice
The fall cleaning has been com
pleted, anyone having relatives or
loved ones and wish to help with
the financing is requested to give
donation to Mrs. W. A. Payne or
Mrs. H. E. Ghildres.